Refraction 2, the award-winning game from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science in which players use fractions to save lost animals in space, is now available as a free download for the iPad.
Refraction won the grand prize in the Disney Learning Challenge at SIGGRAPH 2010. The game challenges players to expand their knowledge of fractions as they bend, split and redirect lasers to free animals trapped in spaceships. Originally developed for children nine to 11 years old, Refraction… Read more →
Superbowl here we come!
The Seahawks banner has returned to the exterior of UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
Back in New England, the truck delivering a Patriots banner to the Stata Center backed into the building and dented it. More dents to come …… Read more →
UW CSE’s Hank Levy testifies before the House Higher Education Committee on meeting the demand for computer science degrees
Department chair Hank Levy traveled to our state capital today at the invitation of the House Higher Education Committee to address the growing demand for computer science graduates in Washington and the role of UW CSE in meeting that demand.
Speaking before the committee, Hank emphasized the role that UW CSE plays in supplying top computer science graduates to large information and communication technology (ICT) employers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google; local startups that do not have the resources… Read more →
Congratulations to Mayukha Vadari from Redmond HS – UW CSE summer research intern and NCWIT award winner!
Nineteen young women from Washington State have been named regional winners of 2015 Aspirations in Computing Awards from NCWIT – the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Among them is Mayukha Vadari, and 11th grader at Redmond High School, who spent last summer as a research intern working with UW CSE professor Magda Balazinska and other faculty and students from UW CSE and UW Astronomy.
Mayukha’s biography on the NCWIT awards website begins: “This summer (2014), Mayukha had her… Read more →
Congratulations – yet again – to Shwetak Patel
Shwetak Patel has been appointed as the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Shwetak’s research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Sensor-Enabled Embedded Systems, and User Interface Software and Technology. He is particularly interested in developing new sensing technologies with an emphasis on energy monitoring and health applications for the home.
He was a founder of Zensi, Inc., a residential energy monitoring company, which was acquired by Belkin,… Read more →
UW CSE hangs out the Seahawks pride
It’s becoming a welcome annual event: decorating the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering with multi-story banners celebrating the success of Paul’s Seattle Seahawks!… Read more →
Bill Gates pays tribute to Bill Gerberding
This evening the University of Washington community celebrated the life of Bill Gerberding, our longest-serving President and a very special human being.
More information in a previous post here.… Read more →
OneBusAway developers past and present take Metro and Sound Transit to task for their transit data quality
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Brian Ferris and Ph.D. student Caitlin Bonnar take two of the region’s transit agencies to task in an op-ed in the Seattle Transit Blog for ongoing issues with the quality of the data they provide to OneBusAway, the Transit App, Google, and other transit information sources. (Brian wrote all the original code for OneBusAway, and Caitlin currently coordinates maintenance and development of the iPhone app.) Read it here, along with numerous comments from other riders.… Read more →
The economic impact of the University of Washington
A new study finds that the University of Washington generates $12.5 billion per year in economic activity, only one third of which is attributable to the salaries of athletic coaches and administrators. Read more here.… Read more →
CSES 2015!
At Friday’s 2015 UW Computer Science & Engineering Symposium (CSES 2015), 18 graduate students from across the field presented 15-minute research talks to an audience of more than 100 UW CSE graduate students and faculty members.
The goal of CSES is to create a forum for interaction between the different fields of research in CSE. The Symposium organizers – graduate student Yoav Artzi and faculty members Franzi Roesner and Zach Tatlock – invited visionary talks that place current research within… Read more →